British actress Emma Thompson has launched a desperate legal battle to prevent the deportation of her 'adopted' son.

The Canadian general who headed the United Nations peacekeeping force during the 1994 Rwandan genocide gave a chilling account of how roadblocks popped up like mushrooms and served only to pick out and murder Tutsis.

DERMOT HACKETT was 37 years of age when, on May 23, 1987, he was gunned down as he drove his bread van along the Omagh to Drumquin road. He was hit by 15 bullets from a sub machine gun and was killed instantly.

Rwanda has warned it will launch an attack “very soon” on Hutu rebels sheltering in east Congo – an ominous development that raised fears of renewed central African conflict.

CONGOLESE and Rwandan officials announced they had reached an agreement to end a four-year war in Congo that has claimed more than 2 million lives, but rebel leaders warned that peace could remain elusive.

Congolese and Rwandan officials have announced an end to four years of fighting in a war that has claimed more than two million lives.

Congolese President Joseph Kabila will meet leaders from the country's two main rebel groups later this month.